Niagara
Falls Memorial Medical Center announced Monday that it will be
providing primary care services to former patients of Dr. Matthew A.
Bennett.

Memorial
is working with its primary care providers to ensure those patients
have timely access to health care services and are provided with
reliable, quality care.

The
medical center is working with the landlord to reopen the North
Tonawanda office that formerly housed Bennett's practice, pending
state Department of Health approval. In the interim and as a
temporary measure, patient appointments will be scheduled at the
Summit Family Health Center in Suite 500 of the Summit Healthplex on
Williams Road, Wheatfield.

"The
sudden closing of a large primary care practice creates significant
hardship for patients and for the community. Our goal is to assure
the availability and continuity of quality preventive and primary
care services," said Memorial President and CEO Joseph A. Ruffolo.

"We
are in the process of notifying patients that their medical records
are in our custody," he added. "Patients can be assured that
their records will be treated with the utmost confidentiality
throughout this process."